Work over forty hours a week is entitled to overtime pay of 1.5 times your regular rate of pay. The work week is determined by a seven day period of 168 hours picked by the employer. It could start on any day of the week so ask your boss or manager on what day your work week starts if you are likely to exceed 40 hours in a seven day period.
Overtime pay is restricted to work performed in a week and does apply to a single work period since Oregon law sets no limits on the number of hours worked in one day.
If an employer fails to pay the full amount of overtime for any given workweek (for example, by failing to pay overtime for some of the hours worked, or by deducting amounts from the wages paid), then the employer must pay the employee an Oregon penalty and a Federal penalty. The Federal penalty is equal to the amount of unpaid overtime (sometimes referred to as “double for your trouble”). The Oregon penalty is up to 30 days’ wages (8 hours per day x 30 days x the employee’s wage rate).
